Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar passed the milestone of 100,000 coronavirus cases on Monday, the health ministry said, as the country presses ahead with plans to re-open its economy. The gas-rich emirate has one of the world’s highest per capita infection rates with 100,345 people, 3.65 percent of its 2.75 million population, having tested positive for COVID-19. Almost 94,000 of those infected have recovered and 133 people have died, one of the lowest reported […]
4 Metro Manila cities tagged as emerging COVID-19 hotspots (Eagle News) – The total COVID-19 cases have reached 46,333 with the addition of 2,099 cases – the second straight day where added new cases surpassed 2,000. The past two days are so far the days with the highest addition of new cases, but the Department of Health maintained that the case doubling time is still at more than a week, at 7.95 days. Fresh cases […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s Lion Air Group is slashing 2,600 jobs as the coronavirus pandemic hammers Southeast Asia’s biggest carrier, a company spokesman said Monday. The layoffs — about nine percent of the airline’s 29,000 employees — would mainly affect contract workers, it said. The job cuts come after Lion earlier reduced management and staff salaries. “Lion Air Group is in a difficult and challenging period due to the effects of…Covid-19,” said Lion Air […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 will temporarily suspend operations starting tomorrow, July 7. In a statement, the MRT-3 said the temporary suspension approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases would allow for a swab testing of all MRT-3 personnel, including those of its maintenance provider and subcontractors, “to prevent further spread of the disease, and, most importantly, to protect the health and safety of both its personnel and commuters.” […]
(Eagle News) — Bulusan is now on alert level 1, which means it is in an “abnormal condition.” The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Monday, July 6, said the volcano’s alert level was raised from 0 after 53 volcanic earthquakes were recorded since July 3, and a “short-term inflation of the edifice” was recorded since late February. PHIVOLCS said the quakes included 43 low-frequency events that are “associated with weak and shallow hydrothermal […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Chile recorded 10,159 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, as President Sebastian Pinera announced a $1.5 billion aid package to help the middle class, which has been battered by the economic crisis. The death toll is compiled weekly by the Department of Statistics and Health (DEIS) and is considered to be the most accurate for reporting COVID-19 deaths by test results or by symptoms. According to Sunday’s report, there were 7,057 deaths […]
SUVA, Fiji (AFP) — Fiji’s 78-day run without coronavirus is over, with Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama confirming Monday a 66-year-old man tested positive after returning from India. It is the 19th case in the small South Pacific island nation, and more are now expected. “We’ve confirmed a border case of COVID-19 among a returning citizen while he was securely in the confines of government-funded quarantine,” Bainimarama said. All arrivals to Fiji have to undergo 14 […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Ennio Morricone, one of the world’s best-known and most prolific film composers, died in Rome on Monday. Morricone, who was 91, died in hospital where he was being treated for a fractured femur following a fall, media reports said, quoting a statement from a lawyer. He composed the music for about 500 films, including his old schoolfriend Sergio Leone’s 1966 spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and Quentin […]
(Eagle News) — The Sagada government has declined a request for a team, including director Joyce Bernal and actor Piolo Pascual, to reportedly shoot in the municipality video materials to be used for the President’s next State of the Nation Address. In a Facebook post, the municipal government said the request was made via a phone call by a coordinator from the Malacanang Broadcast Staff-RTVM to the Sagada mayor and to the Municipal Disaster Risk […]
by Ben Sheppard Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Officials at the epicenter of the worsening coronavirus crisis in the United States warned Sunday their hospitals were in danger of being overwhelmed by the upsurge, as India registered a record number of new cases. In signs of progress, Formula One returned with the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix held behind closed doors, while the Louvre museum in Paris will reopen on Monday after a […]
by Jerome TAYLOR HONG KONG, China (AFP) — China promised Thursday to take “strong countermeasures” if the US presses ahead with tough new sanctions that target banks over infringements on Hong Kong’s autonomy, after Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on the restless financial hub. Beijing has faced a groundswell of criticism from primarily Western nations over its decision to impose a law outlawing acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and colluding with foreign forces in […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican police have arrested three men over a bloody gun attack on a drug rehabilitation center that left 27 people dead, the local prosecutor’s office said Sunday. Gunmen burst into the center in the city of Irapuato in the central Guanajuato state on Wednesday, forcing victims “onto the ground and shot them”, authorities said. The suspects were captured in a swoop by special forces, the prosecutor’s office said on Twitter, […]
